Comments on: ABC Midlands opening with Bill Steele https://alphatelevision.services/presentation/abc-midlands-opening-with-bill-steele/ Alpha Television Services (Birmingham) Limited | The studios of ABC and ATV in Birmingham Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:21:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Russ J Graham https://alphatelevision.services/presentation/abc-midlands-opening-with-bill-steele/#comment-339 Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:21:28 +0000 http://alphatelevision.services/?p=277#comment-339 In reply to Michael Oliver.

I’m afraid your memory is slightly faulty, Michael!

Tyne Tees had a 7-day contract and didn’t hand over to ABC at the weekends. The area they covered wasn’t profitable enough for a 5-day contractor to prosper there.

And David Hamilton was a presenter on ABC in the north (what would later be the Granada and Yorkshire regions). He was on ABC in the midlands occasionally – and later on Thames and then Radio 1 – but the vast, vast bulk of his ABC work was in Manchester.

]]> By: Michael Oliver https://alphatelevision.services/presentation/abc-midlands-opening-with-bill-steele/#comment-338 Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:49:57 +0000 http://alphatelevision.services/?p=277#comment-338 I Was six or seven years old and living in the north east back in the early sixties I remember through the week we watched programs brought through Tyne Tees
Television and at weekends A B C and ATV TV brought our programs I remember
the start up intro sound with the three letters of the A B C TV coming down from
Left to right along with the sound ,These were great days watching television,
And to find out many years latter that one of my favourite radio DJs David Hamilton was a presenter for the midlands tv company was a suprise to me, However I still do
remember him back then .

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